I have heard it said that The Island of Adventure starts slowly, and perhaps it does. But I think it's very nicely written, full of colorful detail and interesting characters, and the setting of Craggy-Tops, where Philip and Dinah live, is excellent. I suspect that, as far as this series goes, the first of the eight books is probably only slow when compared to the others – but reading this fresh (and barely remembering a single thing from my childhood) I feel the slow start is necessary to draw the characters and setting before plunging us deep into action. But then again, a young reader probably has a shorter attention span than me, so... Waktu SD, cita-cita aku dan teman-temanku (sesama pembaca Lima Sekawan) adalah menemukan harta di suatu tempat rahasia yang bisa dilewati dari bawah tanah~ Cita-cita ini kandas begitu saja ( ◡‿◡ )

Bill Smugs is an almost shady-sounding but likeable character – you spend much of the book trying to decide whether he is good or bad – and is one of the few characters that Blyton writes in this half-and-half manner. Most of her bad guys are obvious at first mention, and the good guys also stand out. Bill obviously turns out to be a good guy, and his strange behaviour is explained, but he does keep you guessing. To be honest, it wasn't reading, it was sharing the adventures with the characters, they did get into some predicaments, ones we all dreamed about getting into ourselves as kids in real life! I know I'm dating myself here, but kids haven't changed much. Dinners (and breakfast and lunch) are immensely important to the young, and one of the key moments in all the Adventure books always concerns them stumbling over a cache of tinned foods that will (phew!) tide them over until help comes. Originally, the series was supposed to end after this episode, but under the great demand of dedicated fans, Blyton wrote two more episodes: Dinah Mannering: Philip's younger sister of about twelve at the beginning of the series. Like her brother, she has a tuft of hair standing up atop her head, but she shares neither his gift in attracting, nor his love for, animals, especially the small creeping types (mice, insects, snakes etc.). Temperamental as she is, she often finds herself the target of her brother's teasing, but otherwise she is quite level-headed, tough, intelligent and grown-up for her age.

Adventure Series

urn:lcp:islandofadventur00enid:epub:ae53897a-cae9-4c38-a033-2324c829043b Foldoutcount 0 Identifier islandofadventur00enid Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0ms4w61r Isbn 0333344073 The days go by. Some trivia: Jo-Jo's "queer beliefs" become "strange beliefs" in the 1988 edition. And the word "to-morrow" loses its hyphen. The undersea tunnel must also be mentioned – it is impeccably described, and again you feel as if you are there with Phillip and Bill Smugs. The entrance hidden down a well is ingenious. Blyton was obviously delighted by the idea herself, as she used a very similar undersea tunnel to connect two islands in The Adventurous Four Again three years later and several years after that adapted it in The Ring-O-Bells Mystery to a long, secret underground tunnel that runs between Ring-O-Bells Hall and an entrance half way down a well.

Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL10496710M Openlibrary_edition But sometimes, it can be a unexpected pleasure. You know it won't live up to your memories, and so your expectations can be low, and easily surpassed. Philip is perplexed by a strange disembodied voice – until he realizes it's coming from a parrot in the tree! Bill takes the foursome on a trip to a Scottish island to help them recover from measles. But amongst the islands, they stumble upon a sinister plot; Bill disappears, and the children are left alone to find out where he is, what is going on and how they will escape. I was very pleasantly surprised, on re-reading The Island of Adventure. Yes, the plot is thin, and the characters, while well-sketched, still essentially simplistic. But it's fun - who does't love a good secret tunnel? In particular, it's rather better written than I was expecting, and better than it needed to be, with surprising depth and sympathy even in peripheral characters: I can see why this felt real to me in a way that more overtly childish books did not. While the prose, and in particular the dialogue, are inevitably dated, they're more 'pleasantly old-fashioned' than 'incomprehensible' or 'ridiculous'.

The Adventure Squad (by Dave Morris)

When Bill buys a plane, he decides to take the four children for a holiday, but events at the airport lead to the four getting into the wrong plane. When the plane lands they find themselves in an unfamiliar valley scarred by war and, once again, the four children fall into an adventure involving a lost treasure sought by a band of villains.

And then there's the casual racism. There's some genuine room for debate on Blyton's intentions in this regard; by the end, much of what seems at first to be casual racism from Blyton is revealed to have been Blyton's assumption of, and attempting manipulation of, the reader's own casual racism; and so I'd be reluctant to start burning effigies purely on the evidence of this book. This time I read them in German and in English and compare them chapter for chapter to find the differences in the German translation. They all pile into a rattletrap of a car driven by Jo-Jo (I'll call him that for the sake of consistency) and finally reach Craggy-Tops. What's it like? Yes, you guessed it – it was a "queer place".And what an ending it is! This is Big Screen action, the sort of scrape Indiana Jones would get caught up in. I won't give it away here, but it's all very nicely done and has a realistic feel to it, even for this adult reader! Overall, very good stuff. Review by Heather from Australia (March 30, 2005)

In short, The Island of Adventure serves to whet your appetite for a nice juicy main course – which comes in the form of Castle and Valley. I have to admit that Enid Blyton is one of my guilty pleasures in-between reading novels, (auto)biographies and non-fiction books on WW II. TV films of the first two books, The Island of Adventure and The Castle of Adventure, were made in the UK in 1982 and 1990 respectively. There was also a New Zealand TV series in the 1990s but that was only very loosely based on the original books. Adventure Series Books Jenis petualangannya 11-12 dengan Lima Sekawan (((o(*°▽°*)o))) yang artinya: Lorong Rahasia! Gua Persembunyian! Harta!! (✧ω✧) ...atau minimal sesuatu yang berharga [̲̅Rp(̲̅ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°̲̅)̲̅✧]Note: The following synopsis contains spoilers. If you haven't read the book, you may not want to read this. I've put comments on language changes and other oddities as I went along, because I thought it would make more sense if these are seen in context. Here's what Philip says in 1944: "Jo-Jo, put that trunk in the car too. It belongs to my two friends." Dulu pas SMP dipinjemin seri Petualang ini tapi yang vol.6 ...dan karena waktu itu juga sudah baca Lima Sekawan, STOP, dan Trio Detektif, rasa-rasanya keempat tokoh utama di seri ini jadi kurang meninggalkan kesan~